{"id":784,"date":"2017-04-25T09:22:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T15:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/?p=784"},"modified":"2017-08-17T19:03:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T01:03:53","slug":"disabling-ipv6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Disabling ipv6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was really keen to get ipv6, and very pleased when my provider (wretched hateful Comcast) finally gave me an ipv6 address.<\/p>\n<p>What I didn&#8217;t know was that most VPN providers, including the one I use, are only tunneling the ipv4 traffic. So if you make a connection to a location that supports ipv6 (has an AAAA record) the connection will completely bypass the vpn tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>I have temporarily turned off ipv6 on the external interface by putting this into \/etc\/sysctl.conf:<\/p>\n<pre>net.ipv6.conf.enp4s1.disable_ipv6 = 1\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was really keen to get ipv6, and very pleased when my provider (wretched hateful Comcast) finally gave me an ipv6 address. What I didn&#8217;t know was that most VPN providers, including the one I use, are only tunneling the ipv4 traffic. So if you make a connection to a location that supports ipv6 (has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/?p=784\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Disabling ipv6<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4,33,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora","category-linux","category-security","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wmbuck.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}